Abigail Sin and Lin Xiangning kick off Dennis Lee Piano series with technical chops, dramatic flair

Review of Abigail Sin and Lin Xiangning's powerful performances of Beethoven's piano concertos in the Dennis Lee Piano Series ...
Classic FM

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor: Full Works Concert Highlight of the Week

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...
Classic FM

Beethoven's music: John Suchet explores the Piano Concertos

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...
KCRW

Beethoven's Pianos

Beethoven’s 1817 fortepiano, built by Thomas Broadwood. Beethoven, though primarily thought of as a great composer, was also the greatest pianist of his age. Only Franz Liszt could approach ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: The Piano Trios review – Barenboim revisits past glories

Fifty years after his classic recordings with Jacqueline du Pre, Barenboim joins with his violinist son and cellist Kian Soltani to bring nuance and thoughtfulness to these seven piano trios Daniel ...
insider.si.edu

Beethoven, Ludwig v.: The Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano [sound recording]

101 Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 / Paul Olefsky, Walter Hautzig. Violoncello,Piano 201 Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Sonata No. 2 in G Minor ...
The Guardian

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 101 & 106, review – a reminder of the power of Pollini

The pianist’s severe, analytical style engages with two of the most challenging works in the repertoire to produce a disc of compelling, muscular authority It took Maurizio Pollini more than 30 years ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata and more

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Poignant, proud, beautiful, complicated, crazy, monumental..." Just some of the words Australian ...
The Financial Times

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas — the work of a mature artist

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

1000 Years of Classical Music: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...
The New York Times

The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers. By Patricia Morrisroe ...
The New York Times

Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...